The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina iii
... century past , and sending in from every land their contributions towards it . In this newly gotten knowledge of human language there is matter for educational use . The relations of language to culture are so intimate that what betters ...
... century past , and sending in from every land their contributions towards it . In this newly gotten knowledge of human language there is matter for educational use . The relations of language to culture are so intimate that what betters ...
Pagina 8
... century ; the Mittel - Hoch - Deutsch goes back to the thirteenth ; and the Neu - Hoch - Deutsch dates from the Reformation of the sixteenth century . This is the High Dutch division of the Gothic languages . Round about these , in a ...
... century ; the Mittel - Hoch - Deutsch goes back to the thirteenth ; and the Neu - Hoch - Deutsch dates from the Reformation of the sixteenth century . This is the High Dutch division of the Gothic languages . Round about these , in a ...
Pagina 14
... century Scripture was translated into Mosogothic : in the seventh century Anglo - Saxon began to be cultivated by means of Christianity , and during five centuries were produced those writings which have partly survived . In the ...
... century Scripture was translated into Mosogothic : in the seventh century Anglo - Saxon began to be cultivated by means of Christianity , and during five centuries were produced those writings which have partly survived . In the ...
Pagina 18
... century , is , that there were people from three tribes , Angles , Saxons , and Jutes . The latter were said to be ... centuries . This would naturally have left a trace upon their language . And hence we find that of the words which the ...
... century , is , that there were people from three tribes , Angles , Saxons , and Jutes . The latter were said to be ... centuries . This would naturally have left a trace upon their language . And hence we find that of the words which the ...
Pagina 25
... century in Northumbria . And it is interesting to reflect that in all our island there is no district which to this day has an equal reputation for lyric poetry , whether we think of the mediæval ballads , or of Burns , or of the ...
... century in Northumbria . And it is interesting to reflect that in all our island there is no district which to this day has an equal reputation for lyric poetry , whether we think of the mediæval ballads , or of Burns , or of the ...
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